Mom mentioned that she wanted another Gideon update on the blog. As a proud father, I'm all too happy to oblige. He is doing so well! He is quite mobile these days, crawling around the house. He doesn't do stairs yet.
We have a therapist come to work with him once a week to work on strengthening his muscles. He wears little plastic boots that help him stand up. He loves to stand up on your lap or on the pew at church. We're trying to help him learn to stand up and to cruise around on the furniture, but he doesn't yet have the muscle strength and control to do it. He is improving, though.
Gideon still has, and may always have limited bowel control. There may be things that can be done to strengthen those muscles, but it is hard to tell at this point. Always having a poopy diaper can cause quite the diaper rash on occasion, though he doesn't seem to have much feeling in his bum, so it hasn't been a source of serious discomfort for him. (Hey, you said you wanted to know!)
He is doing lots of babbling these days, he just learned today to identify his nose on command, and he's got a few words which seem to include amen, mommy, and yeah.
He has a very good temperament and we feel ever so blessed to have him in our home, even when he tears the leaves off my plants and eats them, causing him to throw up on the carpet where dad has to clean it up. :)
